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Here are our totals for 2024! We read a total of 213,122 pages! Add in your January 2025 reading totals to start out the new year.

January 2024: 33,656 pages
February 2024: 15,746 pages
March 2024: 18,885 pages
April 2024: 17,936 pages
May 2024: 12,771 pages
June 2024: 11,388 pages
July 2024: 13,883 pages
August 2024: 19,065 pages
September 2024: 13,762 pages
October 2024: 10,886 pages
November 2024: 22,474 pages
December 2024: 22,397 pages

January

1. A Bat in the Belfry (Home Repair is Homicide, #16) – Sarah Graves (4 stars) 1/2/25 2013 [388]
2. Winter at the Door (Lizzie Snow, #1) – Sarah Graves (3 stars) 1/5/25 2015 [272]
3. The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray (5 stars) 1/9/25 [368]
4. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books – Kirsten Miller (4 stars) 1/13/25 [298]
5. Girl in Ice – Erica Ferencik (4 stars) 1/14/25 [304]
6. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) – Waubgeshig Rice (4 stars) 1/16/25 [320]
7. Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi (4 stars) 1/18/25 [256]
8. A Fatal Fleece (A Seaside Knitters Mystery, #6) – Sally Goldenbaum (4 stars) 1/21/25 [317]
9. Trust Me (The Last Stand, #1) – Brenda Novak (4 stars) 1/23/25 [435]
10. Ashes & Alchemy (Gaslight Chronicles, #6) – Cindy Spencer Pape (4 stars) 1/25/25 [82]
11. Dragons & Dirigibles (Gaslight Chronicles, #7) – Cindy Spencer Pape (4 stars) 1/26/25 [125]
12. Ether & Elephants (Gaslight Chronicles, #8) – Cindy Spencer Pape (4 stars) 1/28/25 [193]
13. Orion (Star Guardians, #1) – Ruby Lionsdrake (3 stars) 1/29/25 2017 [226]
14. Imperfect Chemistry (Imperfect, #1) – Mary Frame (4 stars) 1/31/25 2014 [266]

Total Books - 14
Total pages - 3850

Group Total: 3850

1. Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Transformed America by Luis A. Miranda (272 pages)
2. Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind by David B. Nelson (324 pages)
3. Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan (380 pages)
4. Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson (272 pages)

My January Total: 1248 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 5,098 PAGES

January

1) Augustus by John Williams, 336 pgs
2) The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 247 pgs
3) The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Divletsen, 371 pgs
4) Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates, 192 pgs
5) James by Percival Everett, 303 pgs
6) Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell, 80 pgs
7) An Angel at the Grave by Edith Wharton, 34 pgs
8) A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh, 176 pgs
9) My Friends by Fredrik Backman, 448 pgs
10) Meditation by Franz Kafka, 79 pgs
11) The Wedding People by Alison Espach, 363 pgs
12) How You Say It by Katherine D. Kinzler, 256 pgs
13) The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima, 183 pgs

Total = 3,068 Pages

TOTAL PAGES = 8,166 PAGES

JANUARY

1. White Bird by R. J. Palacio 272 pages
2. The Forest of Lost Souls by Dean Koontz 400 pages
3. Dark Territory by A. C. Cobble 420 pages
4. Balloons Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton 268 pages
5. All American Adventure by James Patterson 368 pages
6. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 247 pages
7. The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritson 341 pages
8. The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain 384 pages
9. I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones 373 pages
10. Bone Rattle by Marc Cameron 336 pages
11. The Silk Finisher by Daniel Melchior 384 pages
12. Sundial by C. F. Fruzzetti 330 pages
13. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 368
14. Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan 304 pages
15. Stay Close by Harlan Coben 387 pages
16. Tiny Nightmares by Lincoln Michel 289 pages
17. Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn 272 pages
18. Ghoster by Jason Arnopp 497 pages
19. It Waits in the Woods by Josh Malerman 52 pages
20. The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn 400 pages
21, The Chosen by Chaim Potok 284 pages
22. And They Called Her Spider by Michael Coorlim 56 pages
23. The Wanderers by Meg Howrey 370 pages
24. Doctor Ice Pick by Claire Prentice 85 pages
25. Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries by Tanya Kappes 196 pages

Total for this month: 7983
GROUP TOTAL: 16,149

YEAR GOAL: 145 books/25 nE, 36,000 pages

JANUARY: 10 books, 3 nE, 2,478 pages, avg. 248 pages
TOTAL: 10 books, 3 nE, 2,478 pages, avg. 248 pages

JANUARY BOOKS:
1. Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed By Kindness [1603] 41 pages
2. George Chapman, Bussy d’Amboise [1603 or 1604] 36 pages
3. John Marston, The Malcontent [1604] 35 pages
4. Rutebeuf (various spellings), Oeuvres complètes, v. 1 [13th cent., Jubinal ed. 1839] 577 pages [Kindle, Wikisource(Fr.)] [in French]
5. “William Shakespeare”, The London Prodigal [pub. 1605] about 60 pages
6. Ernest Samuels, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur [1979] 477 pages
7. Rutebeuf (various spellings), Oeuvres complètes, v. 2 [13th cent., Jubinal ed. 1839] 523 pages [Kindle, Wikisource(Fr.)] [in French]
8. Ananda Devi, Le sari vert [2009] 256 pages [Kindle] [in French]
9. Israel Joshua Singer, The Brothers Ashkenazi [1935, 1st Eng. tr. 1936, this tr. (Joseph Singer) 1980] 460 pages [Kindle]
10. Anthony Munday, The Triumphs of Re-United Brittania [1605] 13 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 18,627 pages

JANUARY

1. The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop 255 pages
2. The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffen Dunne 385 pages
3. How Can You Defend Those People by Mikey Sherman 240 pages
4. American Harvest by Maria Mutsuki Mockett 381 pages
5. Cue The Sun by Emily Nussbaum 441 pages
6. I'm Not The Biggest Bitch In This Relationship by Wade Rouse 241 pages
7. Out Of Africa by Isak Dinesen 399 pages
8. Nothing Good Ever Happens After Midnight by Pillip Tomasso III 208 pages
9. Playing Doctor by John Lawrence 228 pages
10. Life's Too Short by Darius Rucker 242 pages
11. Fuzz by Mary Roach 144 pages
12. Bully by Jim Shutze 304 pages

Total for January: 3,468 pages
Group Total: 22,095

Here are mine:

1. Halloween Party--Agatha Christie--263 pages
2. Be Not Coy--Felicity Nevin--25 pages
3. Voluptuous--Felicity Nevin--166 pages
4. Redd, Whit, & Blue--Ellie Hall--161 pages
5. The Money Shot--Ian O. Lewis--313 pages
6. Sidle Creek--Jolene McIlwain--242 pages
7. Loving Eliza--Ruth Ann Nordin--229 pages
8. A Lord's Chance--Renee Dahlia--77 pages
9. Absolution--Alice McDermott--324 pages
10. A Curious Duke--Anne Shaw--92 pages
11. In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning--Grace Elizabeth Hale--215 pages
12. Double Trouble in Iowa City--Wendy Byrne--245 pages
13. Hamnet--Maggie O'Farrell--305 pages
14. Filling the Void--Sammi Cee--152 pages
15. Redeeming Bosley--Sammi Cee--115 pages
16. Protecting the Nerd--Nora Phoenix--298 pages
17. Nowhere Arizona: Sunset Warrior--Leanore Elliott--184 pages
18. Accidently My Cowboy--Kristine W. Joy--302 pages
19. Destroyer Captain: The Life of Ernest E. Evans--James Hornfisher and David Hornfisher--240 pages
20. A New Beginning--Amelia C. Adams--108 pages
21. Benning--Kate Weiss--50 pages
22. Behind Her Eyes--Sarah Pinborough--308 pages
23. The Associate--Rachel Sinclair--245 pages

January pages: 4659

GROUP TOTAL: 26,724